The Minister for the Interior, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, announced that the government has deployed armoured buses on major highways throughout Ghana as part of a nationwide initiative to combat highway robbery and enhance road safety. He explained that these buses will operate under various transport brands, allowing security agencies to monitor movement patterns and track criminal activity along critical routes, particularly long-distance highways that have historically been prone to armed attacks.
Speaking during President John Dramani Mahama’s “Resetting Ghana” citizens’ engagement program in the Savannah Region on Saturday, May 23, 2026, Mubarak stated that this intervention is already yielding positive results. “One of the major challenges that we used to have was the long stretch where armed robbers block people, and then they take all their resources,” he said.
“Today, under the watch of His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, we’ve acquired armoured buses, and these armoured buses have been doing a wonderful job on most of our long-stretch routes because we keep branding them differently.”
He added that authorities intend to vary the branding of the buses as part of an operational strategy to improve tracking and disrupt criminal networks. “We will keep rebranding them to make sure that we get the perpetrators,” he said, adding that the Inspector General of Police and his team were “doing excellently” in ongoing operations against highway gangs.
Mubarak said arrests have increased in recent months and expressed confidence that the initiative would significantly improve safety on the country’s highways. “We’ve been getting a lot of the highway armed robbers, and very soon we want to believe our highways will be much, much safer than they were before the coming of his Excellency,” he said.
The deployment comes amid longstanding public concern over highway robberies on major transport corridors, which have in past years disrupted travel, trade, and passenger confidence. Authorities say the armoured buses are part of a broader security upgrade aimed at restoring safer interstate travel across the country.
Source: William Narh
